UOW Partnership

Partnership between Worcestershire Medico-Legal Society (WMLS) and the University of Worcester (UOW)

An exciting development in the history of the WMLS has been the growing links between it and the UOW. In January 2015 David Green, Vice-Chancellor of the UOW, and John Duddington, Chairman of the WMLS, signed a memorandum of co-operation between the two organisations which commits them to work together to promote exchange and co-operation in areas of research and the sharing of information in areas of mutual interest. This co-operation has already resulted in a conference at the University in July 2015 on ‘Best Interests in Medicine’ attended by well over 100 delegates with another conference in July 2016 on ‘End of Life Care’.

The Society has held a number of its meetings at the University campus in Worcester using both the chapel and the old board room of the former hospital where the British Medical Association was founded in 1832 by Sir Charles Hastings, a Worcester doctor, as the Provincial and Medical Surgical Association.

Since 2017, meetings have been held at the UOW in the School of Law. From 2023, meetings will also be held in the Three Counties Medical School. The ultimate aim is to work towards establishing a Medico-Legal Centre at the University.